Watermelon Arugula Salad with Blood Orange Vinaigrette

A few weeks ago, we shared a picture of this salad on our Instagram page (for #NationalWatermelonDay, obvi), but we never shared the full recipe. So, here it is! This recipe was inspired by a salad I ate at Shenanigan’s Irish Pub and Grille in Ocean City, Maryland earlier this summer. Who would have expected such a light and simple salad from a place on the boardwalk at the beach with “pub” and “grille” in their name? Not this girl. But I loved every bite of that salad and continued to think about it well after arriving back home in Philly.

The salad itself is super simple—4 easy-to-find ingredients. It was the blood orange vinaigrette that really got me. If you’ve never tried anything involving blood orange, stop whatever you’re doing right and go find a blood orange margarita… or something. Blood oranges are more flavorful and bitter than a regular orange, but also with a hint of sweet, almost raspberry-like flavor. And when paired with the watermelon, arugula and goat cheese, it just WORKS (or, you could say #WERKS).